New Navy Battleship Completely
ComputerizedBy John Lear Posted March 2008

The U.S. Navy's newest battleship called "Fleet 21"
has completed sea trials southwest of its base in San Diego and is being
prepared for deployment.

The 600 foot long battleship bristles with all types
of heavy guns and other weapons which include ROV's (remotely operated
vehicles) several of which can operate airborne.

The difference between "Fleet 21" and previous Navy
battleships is that "Fleet 21" is totally computerized and requires no
person on board. It can sail into any area of engagement and deploy its
weapons without fear of harm to any sailor.

The potential for anonymous death and destruction fills
the Navy High Command with pride and joy.

Navy insiders report that this battleship, of which
many are to be built was conceived, designed and built for a specific engagement
that is to take place sometime in the next couple of years. But they would
not say who the enemy was or exactly where the battle would take place.

Navy Submarine Base Under the
Nevada Desert?

By John LearPosted March 2008

Over the past 20 years I have heard and read stories
of a huge U.S. Navy submarine base under the desert in Hawthorne Nevada.

During that time I have driven from Las Vegas to Reno
many times and was always intrigued at the guard gate and sign just before
entering the town of Hawthorne. (Hawthorne is about two and a half hours
drive from Reno.)

It used to read ‘Naval Undersea Warfare Training Center’.
Today it reads ‘Naval Undersea Warfare Center’. They must have made the
change in the past year or so. Maybe longer.

Hawthorne Nevada is a U.S. Army Depot where ammunition
is made, tested and stored. Endless rows of ammunition bunkers dot both
sides of the road.

Just to the north of Hawthorne is Walker Lake. The
East Walker river drains into it and over the past 20 years has become
shallower and shallower. The lake is about 18 miles long and about 8 miles
wide the longer axis running north and south.

It can’t be very deep. I am not good at judging lake
depths, maybe 100 feet? Certainly wouldn’t seem deep enough for a Ohio,
Virginia, Seawolf, Los Angeles. Maybe that little nuclear powered Fast
Attack Sub. But I know nothing about submarines.

And the lake itself certainly wouldn’t be big enough
or deep enough to train for Undersea Warfare. Or so it would seem.

There are stories that California and Nevada sit on
a shelf underneath which lies an eastern portion of the Pacific Ocean.
Maybe the Pacific Ocean extends under that shelf to Hawthorne Nevada (and
even further?). From sources I consider reliable submarines can travel
under the U.S. as far as St. Louis. Maybe farther east. Maybe all the way
to the Atlantic.

There are stories that Navy submarines can travel from
Puget Sound direct to the Lake Pend Oreille in Idaho.

Maybe there is some kind of access from the surface
of the desert within the area occupied by the Naval Undersea Warfare Center
in Hawthorne. And maybe if you go deep enough there is a huge part of the
Pacific Ocean in which the Navy conducts Undersea Warfare training.

Impossible? Improbable? So it would seem.

But let’s assume that it might be true. There would
have to be a route from the Pacific Ocean to Hawthorne. If we take a set
of dividers and place one end at Hawthorne Nevada and place the other end
at the closest portion of the Pacific Ocean we would find that it is in
Monterey Bay, just south of San Francisco. Just north of Fort Ord.

The distance is roughly about 212 statute miles.

Now let’s also assume that there is traffic both to
and from Monterey Bay and Hawthorne Nevada. We would probably have to have
to separate channels, one for each direction of travel. If it’s a sea how
can we separate these channels? I don’t know.

Below is a chart on which I have drawn two lines representing
these channels between Monterey Bay and Hawthorne. If a submarine where
to make 33 knots the trip would take about five and a half hours.

Here is a link to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center
in Keyport Washington.

"Our main facility is located
at Keyport, Washington, in the Puget Sound region near the major components
of the Fleet we support. We have Detachments located near our Pacific
Fleet customers in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and San Diego, California.
Fleet testing and logistics sites are located at Nanoose, British Columbia,
and Hawthorne, Nevada."

"Although NUTEC provides test
and evaluation services wherever needed, the test center is focused at
NUWC Division Keyport, Washington, building upon a foundation of over 90
years of undersea vehicle expertise. Here, in the protected waters of Washington’s
Puget Sound, near Seattle, NUTEC offers extensive range instrumentation
and support services at test sites at Keyport and in Dabob Bay and the
adjoining waters in Hood Canal. NUTEC also provides a variety of portable
test systems and distance support capabilities to facilitate unmanned vehicle
testing at other Navy range facilities and at sites of operational interest
world-wide."

In March of 1980, John J. Williams, a New Mexico "Patriot"
who published the anti-Communist oriented "REBEL MAGAZINE" (at the time
available from: Consumertronics Co., c/o John J. Williams. Pres., 2011
Crescent Dr., P.O. Drawer 537., Alamogardo, NM 88310) revealed some incredible
details on an alleged subterranean system which the Navy had been exploring
below the western United States. The report appeared in issue No. 6 of
his magazine, and was later reproduced in the Fall, 1985 (#164) issue of
SEARCH Magazine, at the time edited by Marjorie Palmer, widow of the late
Ray Palmer. The article, titled 'CALIFORNIA FLOATS ON OCEAN?', revealed
the following:

"Some time ago, I heard a man on a TV interview-show
briefly mention that parts of California and neighboring states are floating
on the Pacific Ocean! He was a high ranking Naval officer on a top- secret
nuclear submarine that has been (and is) exploring and mapping these enormous
caverns and passage-ways underneath the West for over 10 years now.

"A friend of mine finally tracked the man down. He
is now living quietly in retirement and asked that no details pointing
to him be revealed as he does not want publicity and government attention.
After writing this article, I destroyed my files on him. This is his story..."

Williams explains that not "all" of the areas in question
are actually "resting" or "floating" on the ocean, however there are allegedly
many subterranean cavities below the western U.S., and they are not limited
to California, and many of them consist of very large water-filled aqua-systems.
These have been explored via nuclear submarines to several hundred miles
inland, particularly in the region of southern California and the southern
Oregon - northern California area. Williams continues:

"...When he retired several years ago, in spite of
about 10 years of intensive Naval study, the Navy had not gotten even a
handle on their exacts and dimensions. Today, the story may be different."He makes the following statements from his observations:

"1. The passageways are labyrinthine with widths from
a few to thousands of feet (caverns), averaging roughly about a 100 feet.

"2. Much like dry caverns do, heights and depths vary
a great deal and in some cases, two or more caverns or passageways pass
over or under each other at different depths.

"3. Most of the entrances lie just off the Continental
Shelf (ie. in the Continental Slope - Branton).

"4. Most of the entrances are too small for submarine
investigation; and many that are large enough lie in waters that are too
deep.

"5. Some of the caverns (in S. California) are topped
with oil while some others are filled with gases believed to approximate
our atmosphere (in very ancient times).

"6. The San Joaquin Valley is essentially a portion
of the original cavernous area that collapsed eons ago due to it's sheer
weight.

"7. What is being passed off as the 'San Andreas Fault'
are large, unsupported chambers that are in the process of collapsing.
When the BIG ONE finally hits, many scientists in the know believe that
most of California will break off like a cold Hershey bar and slide into
the ocean! (it is postulated by some that an ancient land-mass which some
believe may have been connected to what is now California, broke off and
sunk into the ocean during an ancient cataclysm - Branton)

"8. (We are deleting this section due to the possibility
of undue stress and fear which may result from it's disclosure. Also, because
of recent international events which may have resulted in a solution to
this problem. We will merely state that it involves a scenario similar
to that which was portrayed in a James Bond movie, and which concerned
underground caverns, silicon valley, nuclear weapons, and the San Andreas
fault - Branton).

"9. A WELL-KNOWN U.S. nuclear submarine lost its way
in these passages and disappeared forever. It was reported to have
been lost IN OPEN SEA ELSEWHERE to keep the American people in total ignorance
and to justify an enormous pay-off to an eccentric U.S. billionaire (who
died in recent years) for providing the fictitious "recovery" effort.

"I have no reason to doubt the man. I can't tell for
sure whether or not these caverns and passageways exist or to their extents.
The story does sound a bit fantastic but I have no reason to doubt the
man. I have seen copies of documentation that at least prove that he was
a high ranking Naval officer (nuclear submarine duty) and a distinguished
scientist. In fact, his scientific background and reputation are impeccable.
He definitely cannot be labeled as a crackpot, lunatic or publicity-seeker.
I would very much like more information on this topic..."

After further inquiries to Mr. Williams on the part
of 'inner earth' researchers, Williams responded with the following when
asked whether or not he had received any replies to his request for more
information about the alleged passageways below California:

"Since publishing our article on the vast cavern network
under much of California, we have received many responses and inquiries.
Some of these responses appear to be knowledgeable sources. Note that the
material sent to us for this article was written by someone of very high
repute whose credentials I personally checked out. Due to an agreement
with him, I cannot reveal his identity.

"One response was from a retired (conventional submarine
duty? - Branton) submarine commander, who according to him, spent many
years in the waters off California. He stated that the caverns do NOT exist.

"Another response was from an anonymous person who
cited unpublished oil company seismographical data, and stated, 'Although
most of the caverns you depict in your drawing are smaller, larger or located
somewhat differently than the actual caverns, you are essentially correct...
My information is more up-to-date than what you apparently relied upon.'
He (or she) did not supply any maps to pin down our differences, just some
written descriptions. However, some knowledgeable person could probably
deduce his (or her) overall 'map' from the voluminous seismographical data
sent. I am in the process of looking for this input; it's been several
years now and it may have all been thrown out... Incidentally, the oil
company seismic data had much data round the Fresno area if that helps
any.

"One incident which tends to confirm the fact that
California is in fact floating on the ocean was a story which made the
headlines in recent years. This incident involved an oil discovery beneath
Long Beach, California. When oil companies began pumping oil out of the
ground beneath Long Beach it was soon learned that the entire city BEGAN
SINKING INTO THE OCEAN!

"It sank up to 26 feet and dikes had to be built to
keep out the water. The problem is (temporarily) being rectified by 'water
injection'--i.e. pumping an equivalent amount of WATER into the ground
to the amount of oil and water taken out, in order to keep the city AFLOAT!"

One thing which may be of interest in connection with
Mr. Williams' account was a statement which was made by a prominent California
Bigfoot investigator by the name of Virginia Louise Swanson, who has done
a good deal of study on caves and their connections to the Bigfoot phenomena.
She refers to these caverns in the following words:

"...Somewhere I got the idea that a big portion of
Death Valley is located on a shelf of FALSE bedrock. A certain type of
earthquake would collapse all of it down to an enormous series of caverns
that would open up into another Grand Canyon."According to our knowledge, the only nuclear submarines
ever to disappear under mysterious circumstances were the U.S.S THRESHER
and the U.S.S. SCORPION. It is uncertain whether the retired Navy Officer
who John J. Williams spoke of was referring to the THRESHER or the SCORPION,
although the disappearance of the Thresher probably caused more publicity.
The Thresher was the LEAD SHIP or 'Flag' ship in the world's most advanced
class of nuclear attack submarines. She was designed to operate deeper
and more silently than any of her predecessors and was also endowed with
significant advances in sonar equipment, in noise reduction, and in fire-control.
All in all, she was the most advanced international submarine in the world
at the time of her disappearance and would have been an ideal choice for
a top- secret mission such as the exploration of the caverns mentioned
by John Williams' source.

On April 10, 1963 (according to official reports) the
Thresher, under the command of Lt. Commander John W. Harvey, USN, with
a total of 129 men (comprised of the crew, civilian technicians, and observers)
disappeared without explanation. NOT A SINGLE TRACE or clue as to the fate
of the craft, or it's occupants, were ever recovered: no oil slicks, radiation,
floating debris, or similar signs of wreckage were ever seen. It is interesting
to note that almost all of the reports at the time stated the ship had
"disappeared," or was "lost," not "sunk!" One woman whose husband was on
the ill-fated ship reported her belief that her husband was still alive.
Theologically speaking, the possibility of a long-distance connection or
"communion" on a deep, emotional level between a husband and a wife should
not necessarily be consigned to the realm of the occult or "psychic" phenomena.
Many religions believe that the very spiritual natures of a husband and
a wife are united upon the consummation of a marriage, and thus they become,
as Christian teachings say, "one flesh". The actual words of this woman,
who was interviewed by Will Carson and Jeannie Joy--two writers devoted
to pursuing strange events--shortly after the Thresher incident, were as
follows:

"My husband was on the submarine Thresher when it disappeared.
I don't consider myself a widow. I don't believe my husband is dead. No,
it's not a matter of just not being able to believe it, to accept reality;
I just can't get over the conviction that he's still alive somewhere. I
love my husband very much. I know he loved--loves me. We were very close.
We could always tell when something was wrong with each other. Intuition,
I guess. I should have felt something the instant there was trouble, if
he was really in serious trouble and knew it--a matter of life and death--but
I didn't."

"What do you believe really happened?" Carson and Joy
asked the attractive young woman.

"Most people think I'm crazy when I say this, but I
believe the Thresher was captured."

"By whom?"

"I can't say for sure, but there WAS a Russian submarine
spotted near there that day (that is, near where it REPORTEDLY vanished
220 miles off Boston harbor)--only I can't imagine how even the Russians
could CAPTURE a vessel like the Thresher without leaving the slightest
evidence!"The following account, concerning an area just east
of BISHOP (OWENS VALLEY), CALIFORNIA, was related by Val Valerian in his
'LEADING EDGE' Newsletter, Dec. 1989 - Jan. 1990 issue. The article, titled:
'DEEP SPRING'S, CALIFORNIA', stated:

"Deep Springs, California is an area that is becoming
known as the site for very strange events. According to the information
released both on the air on KVEG-AM and from other sources, the area is
full of strange people wandering around in black suits. There have also
been rumors that there is an underground facility in the area. Checking
with gravity anomaly maps proved that there are large cavities under the
ground in that area. The wildest claims relative to the area have stated
that alien lifeforms are being released there... Deep Springs Lake has
been probed and it appears bottomless. Divers have traveled along an underground
river 27 miles toward the Las Vegas area before having to turn around."
(This 'river' would probably have been a 'partially' water-filled cave
with a large stream or river flowing through it, rather than an entirely
underwater passage, since 27 miles would undoubtedly be entirely out of
the question if it were all underwater travel, with present diving technology
- Branton).

Last August I drove from Reno to Las Vegas after attending
the Bay Area UFO Expo. As I drove through Hawthorne I came upon the
entrance to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center which is on the north side
of the road I pulled over to the right and took out my camera to get a
picture of the sign. As I rolled down the window and lifted my camera I
heard a bunch of shouting and guards waving their arms from the guard shack.

I pulled across the road to the entrance just short
of the shack a lady in Army uniform came over and told me I couldn’t take
pictures. I mentioned to her that I was just going to take a picture of
the sign which was less than ten feet from the highway. She told me I couldn’t
take pictures anywhere around there.

I asked her if I could sign up for a tour. She responded
vehemently in the negative. She then advised me that she should call the
Military Police to confiscate my camera. I told her that I hadn’t had time
to take a picture and that I was just happened to be leaving at that moment.
She waved me to turn around and jotted down my car license number. I was
going to ask her if there were any submarines parked underground but she
was Army and I figured she probably wouldn’t have known.

So. What do you think? Is there a vast underground
sea under California and Nevada with tributary rivers running in various
directions? Maybe one that goes to Las Vegas?

Does the Pacific Ocean actually underlie the United
States?

Is there a possibility that the Navy does operate submarines
from Monterey Bay via an underground sea which extends underneath the San
Joaquin Valley, then under the Sierra Nevada mountain range to a
Naval Undersea Warfare Center?

Located in the state of Washington, the Naval Undersea
Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Keyport (see Fig. 1-1)is the Navy’s sole repair and maintenance depot for
torpedoes and undersea mobile targets. In this capacity, Keyport- with remote sites in Hawaii,
Southern California and Hawthorne, Nevada - provides test and evaluation,
depotmaintenance and repair, In-Service Engineering and
fleet industrial support for torpedoes and other undersea warfaresystems including mobile mines, unmanned underwater
vehicles and countermeasures. Further efforts include responsibility for
undersea combat systems and foreign military sales to almost 39 Allied
countries. To support these activities, Keyport maintains and operates
three underwater, three-dimensional tracking range sites with the capability
to conduct vendor acceptance and in-service testing and evaluation of undersea
weapons.http://www.p2pays.org/ref%5C05/04927.pdf

Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Division Keyport, WashingtonFacility and Location:Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Keyport
is located in the Puget Sound area. It is a shore commandof the Naval Sea Systems Command (NSSC) and one of
2 divisions of the NUWC, Newport, Rhode Island. The Center provides test
and evaluation; in-service engineering, maintenance, and repair; Fleet
readiness, and industrial-base support for undersea warfare systems, countermeasures,
and sonar systems. NUWC has detachments in California, Hawaii, Nevada
and British Columbia, Canada.https://www.denix.osd.mil/portal/...WA_Naval_Undersea_Keyport_NV.pdf

The Naval Undersea Warfare Center
(NUWC) Division, Keyport, Washington, is a shore Command of the United
States Navy under the Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C. It is
one of two divisions of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center which is headquartered
at Division Newport, Rhode Island. Our main facility is located at Keyport,
Washington, in the Puget Sound region near the major components of the
Fleet we support. We have Detachments located near our Pacific Fleet customers
in Lualualei and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and San Diego, California. Fleet
testing and logistics sites are located at Nanoose, British Columbia, and
Hawthorne, Nevada.http://www.dodtechmatch.com/DOD/Lab/ViewLab.aspx?id=20093

Sharon Stuart-Brown's BlogSunday, June 24, 2007Nevada ... looks good on you

Excerpts:

"So we arrived at the Fallon
NAS, and the two guys at the gate with machine guns or assault rifles (I
don't know the difference, honestly) greeted us. I leaned over from the
passenger side to start my rehearsed presentation about how silly this
may sound.... One of the soldiers was off to the side, smirking, and the
other to whom I was speaking smiled slightly and asked for my documents
and ID, and instructed us to pull up to the barricade. He soon returned
with my paperwork and said that the rental car guy would come to retrieve
us. I was relieved beyond belief that I wouldn't have to unpack my two-weeks
worth of belongings! What seemed like an eternity passed before Mr. Hertz
showed up at the gate to lead us on a three and a half mile journey through
the naval base to the car rental trailer. Yes...a portable office! Before
you can say shit, I was in my car and making my way back through the naval
base, wishing that I could have stopped to photograph this experience.
But alas, unauthorized photography was expressly disallowed - and that
was made VERY clear along the way. All I really wanted was a picture of
the road signs inside the base that said, "YIELD TO LOW FLYING AIRCRAFT"."

"My friends had prepped me
for some of the things I would see along the way...bunkers, Area 51, etc.
About 3 miles or so outside of Hawthorne, the bunkers popped up. For thousands
of acres, all I could see was bunkers in the landscape. Picture the movie,
"Alien", with all of the egg pods as far as the eye could see... and this
was how the bunkers appeared - though elongated with doors on the side.
A sign along the highway read, "NUWC"...then spelled out, Naval Undersea
Warfare Center...Wow. In the middle of the desert....go figure. That's
what the bunkers were for."

NUWC Detachment Hawthorne in Hawthorne, Nevada serves
as the depot and storage organization for the mining community. Its
main function is the Receipt, Segregation, Storage, and Issue (RSS&I)
of mine commodities. It also performs maintenance on Fleet return
materials and conducts demilitarization and disposal actions on mine systems
in excess of program requirements.

Photo by Ray NarimatsuRigger Kelsey, left, and Ron Roehmholdt, exhibits
director at the Naval Undersea Museum, unload one of 13 World War II submarine torpedoes
received at the museum May 4.

By JO1 Mary PopejoyStaff WriterFriday, May 13, 2005

The Naval Undersea Warfare Museum at Keyport welcomed
13 World War II Mk 14 Torpedoes into their space May 4 after 11 years of
paperwork, preparation and persistency.

The journey began in 1994 when Dusty Rhodes, Industrial
Specialist (Ordnance and Electronics) and a former Master Chief Torpedoman
of Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Keyport, discovered the historical
torpedoes at the Army Ammunition Depot in Hawthorne, Nev.

“We were climbing through magazines in the storage
areas at Hawthorne, and Bob Bennett, one of the guys who was helping me
out said that he had found some of the “big boy” torpedoes in crates,”
said Rhodes. “I went over to where he was standing and noticed a Naval
Ammunition Logistical Code (NALC) of 1502 stenciled on one crate.
I recognized the number from my days in the Fleet as a Torpedoman’s Mate
as being a Mk 14 Torpedo,” he added.

Some short information on the Hawthorne Army Depot
(HWAD)- It is the largest industrial activity in the State of Nevada and
the largest Depot in the world. Established in 1927, the Depot drove the
town of Hawthorne's population and by 1930 it stood at 680 people. By 1945,
the population had reached 5,625 with the base encompassing some 147,000
acres having 178 buildings and 2,427 above and below ground bunkers for
ammunition storage. By 1980, the Depot was converted to a "contractor-operated"
facility with a total employment of around 500.

The Naval Vessel
Register contains information on ships and service craft that comprise
the official inventory of the US Navy from the time of vessel authorization
through its life cycle and disposal. It also includes ships that have been
stricken but not disposed. Ships and service craft disposed of prior to
1987 are currently not included, however the data is gradually being added
along with other updates

Service
Craft CustodiansThe following is an alphabetical list of service craft
custodians of current and former US Navy service craft. Select a custodian
to identify which service craft are assigned to that specific custodian.

Individual squadrons do not have a stand-alone Web
site. But they are cascaded off the COMSUBPAC site.This list was derived from the last issue of Undersea
Warfare magazine. Cost of this great magazine is $25/year for 4 issues.Contact them at:Superintendent of DocumentsPO Box 371954Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954or call (866) 512-1800 or fax (202) 512-2104or visit http://bookstore.gpo.gov

Ron Martini: rontini@bresnan.net

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